Friday, July 18, 2008

Ah, the smell of it!

Muss Development might be billing its new Sky View Parc condos as "luxury residences," but there's nothing upscale at the moment about the 14-acre Flushing, Queens, site where the waterfront complex is slated to rise.

Across the street heading east is the Bland Houses housing project. To the west sits the Van Wyck Expressway and the olfactory assault of Flushing Creek. Rumbling aboveground just north of the property is the 7 train. Just south is the Long Island Rail Road. Overhead, jets out of LaGuardia Airport roar past every several minutes.

As for the actual construction site, it sits atop a former brownfield that required environmental remediation before development was possible.

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I just don't understand, in a borough that supposedly loves immigrants, why they are channeled to the worst communities, with the worst services.

No one, in their right mind (or desperate) would move into such a marginal location.

This place, like most new Queens developments, will be built with the cheapest materials and construction techniques and will cater to foreign money looking for investment profits by crowding transient immigrants into rooms.

The buildings will be overtaxed and overworked and in a decade will look shopworn and tired.

Muss will be luring Chinese immigrants with promises of living in the lap of luxury.

Living conditions are far worse in the more remote provinces of China, unless you're one of the lucky ones living in upscale progressive port cities like Shanghai, so Muss' development will appear very "upscale". (Indeed, the purchase price per unit will definitely be)!

Actually, the Bland Houses offer far more green space than there will be included in the completed Sky View Parc's "luxury" condos!

The poorer Chinese/Taiwanese have already moved in and displaced the poorer people of color in the Bland projects.

Take a good look at the basketball courts and see who's playing there today.

Nice selective quote. How about this one: "By the time Sky View Parc is complete, Muss principal Jason Muss says, landscaping will hide the surrounding train track. A waterfront esplanade will sweep residents into the Flushing Meadow park. And 1,100 luxury apartments will rise above an 800,000-square-foot retail center.

"At the end of the day, the site is going to be totally transformed," he says.

So far, people seem to be buying the pitch. Since going to market in mid-February, the development has sold roughly 100 units at around $650 a square foot - about $150 more per square foot than is typical for the neighborhood."

So far, people seem to be buying the pitch. Since going to market in mid-February, the development has sold roughly 100 units at around $650 a square foot - about $150 more per square foot than is typical for the neighborhood."-------

In a country with no borders, and a big neon sign over Queens saying 'tweeded welcome' you can make something out of twigs and whattle and have a family living in it by nightfall.

.. and they will tell you its an improvement over where they came from.

I don't care about speculators looking to shoehorn people in, we are talking about building stable communities in Queens.

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